March 28, 2017 at 12:00 PM - Regular Meeting

Description:  Attached is the pic that I am bringing to First Financial. Keep First Financial sponsor for 15 years in return for purchase of the marquee. 

Description:  During Spring Break Discovery IT installed projectors in 6 rooms of our main building.
Chrome Books are ordered for middle school math classes. 
Talking with Kountze for their touch screen P/C for lower lever classes. (Kountze has gone with Chrome books for entire school) 

Description:  Friday March 31, Commissioner Mike Morath will be at Region V to address the area superintendents addressing the following items: 
Reviewing student outcomes and TEA’s strategic priorities and getting their input.
Reviewing relevant legislative priorities
Previewing grant opportunities
Sharing and soliciting positive teacher news

Description:  Tuesday, March 28th, the House Public Education Committee will hear two very important TCSA legislative priorities: HB 2337 by Rep. Dutton, provides an additional $700 per student to every charter holder for facilities funding, and, HB 467 by Rep. Murphy, increases the capacity available for public charter schools to the Permanent School Fund Bond Guarantee Program. 

Description:  Texas law (Education Code 33.901) requires public schools or charter schools with 80 % or more of enrolled students eligible for free or reduced-price meals in the National School Lunch Program to provide breakfast at no cost to all students.
Districts may also seek a waiver to opt-out of this requirement. 
FYI- Ehrhart is at 81.99 % ED. 

Description:  Each year, the school district must certify IMA certification. Simply stating that we will only use TEKS certified materials purchased with IMA funds. 

Description:  I would like to add 5 more years to our current salary scale. This will give incentive for our veteran teachers to stay and entice veteran teachers to come to our district. 
Also, adding stipends for Masters Degree, STEM sponsor and Department Head.

Description:  Attached is a copy of our current by-laws dated 2000

Description:  Module 400: Today we will look at Series 400: There is both a legal and a local section. We will have the opportunity to make adjustments to fit our school in the local section. Once we have made the necessary adjustments to fit The Ehrhart School, we will then approve it to become policy. 
I will have a copy for the meeting of the areas in the policy that we will need to make adjustments on.

Description:  The Ehrhart School has the opportunity to become a volunteer pilot school for the Special Allotment Monitoring System.  This is a new Audit that will be performed by TEA focusing on six funded programs:  Special Education, Bilingual/ESL, State Compensatory Education, Gifted and Talented, Career and Tech, and High School Education.  We currently receive funds for four of the six categories.  If we are accepted as a pilot we will go through a mock audit and will be exempt from an audit for three years.  

Description:  This portion of the meeting may be closed to all but essential personnel as deemed necessary by the Board in accordance with the open Meetings Act, Section 551.074 et. Seq., Texas Government Code.